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RELIGION RELIGION

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I like the church, I like a cowl,
I love a prophet of the soul;
And on my heart monastic aisles
Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles;
Yet not for all his faith can see,
Would I that cowled churchman be.

EmersonThe Problem.


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Die Theologie ist die Anthropologic.

Theology is Anthropology.

FeuerbachWesen des Christenthums.


There are at bottom but two possible religions—that which rises in the moral nature of
man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the
observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.
Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects.
Calvinism. P. 20. ,
 
Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and
resolves itself in theological language into the
love of God.
Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects.
Sea Studies.


But our captain counts the image of God,
nevertheless, his image—cut in ebony as if done
in ivory; and in the blackest Moors he sees the
representation of the King of heaven.
Fuller—Holy and Profane States. The Good
Sea-Captain. Maxim 5.


Indeed, a little skill in antiquity inclines a man
to Popery; but depth in that study brings him
about again to our religion.
Fuller—Holy and Profane States. The True
Church Antiquary. Maxim 1.


Am I my brother's keeper?
Genesis. IV. 9.


We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that
any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good
to do religiously.
Hawthorne—Marble Faun. Bk. II. Ch. VII
 
From Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strand,
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand;
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver
' Their land from error's chain.
Reginald Heber—Missionary Hymn.


La couronne vaut bien une messe (Paris vaut
bien une' messe.)
The crown, (or Paris), is well worth a mass.
Attributed to Henry IV.
Religion stands on tiptoe in our land,
Ready to pass to the American strand.
 | author = Herbert
 | work = The Church Militant. L. 235.
Dresse and undresse thy soul: mark the decay
And growth of it: if, with thy watch, that too
Be down, then winde up both: since we shall be
Most surely judged, make thy accounts agree.
 | author = Herbert
 | work = Temple. Church Porch. St. 76.


My Fathers and Brethren, this is never to be
forgotten that New England is originally a
plantation of religion, not a plantation of trade.
John Higqinson—Election Sermon. The
Cause of God and His People in New England. May 27, 1663.


No solemn, sanctimonious face I pull,
Nor think I'm pious when I'm only bilious—•
Nor study in my sanctum supercilious
To frame a Sabbath Bill or forge a Bull.
Hood—Ode to Rue Wilson.


Should all the banks of Europe crash,
The bank of England smash,
Bring all your notes to Zion's bank,
You're sure to get your cash.
Henry Hoyt—Zion's Bank, or Bible Promises
Secured to all Believers. Pub. in Boston, 1857.
Probably a reprint of English origin.


My creed is this:
Happiness is the only good.
The place to be happy is here.
The time to be happy is now.
The way to be happy is to help make others so.
Robert G. Ingersoll—On the Title Page of
Vol. XII. FARRELL'sEd. ofhisWorks.


I belong to the Great Church which holds the
world within its starlit aisles; that claims the
great and good of every race and clime; that
finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed,
and floods with light and love the germs of
good in every soul.
Robert G. Ingersoll—Declaration in Discussion with Rev. Henry M. Field on
Faith and Agnosticism. Farrell's Life.
Vol. VI.


I envy them, those monks of old
Their books they read, and their beads they told.
G. P. R. James—T%e Monies of Old.


Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or
Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and
that their religious differences are trivial, and
rather political than religious.
 | author = Samuel Johnson
 | work = Boswell'sLife. Ch.V. 1763.


To be of no Church is dangerous.
 | author = Samuel Johnson
 | work = Life of Milton.


Other hope had she none, nor wish in life, but
to follow
Meekly, with reverent steps, the sacred feet of
her Saviour.
 | author = Longfellow
 | work = Evangeline. Pt. II. V. L. 35.


Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed
of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the
egg of democracy.
 | author = Lowell
 | work = Among My Books. New England
Two Centuries Ago.